• Google Japan has a long history of announcing humorous new keyboard ideas. • Last year the team brought us an infinitely curving Mobius strip keyboard. • This year we’re going back to the days of rotary phones, with a rotary-dial keyboard.

Has the Google of 2025 lost some of the spark that made the company seem like such a fun place to work in decades past? That’s probably a fair criticism, and while it may have been an inevitability for a tech firm of this size, we’re still just pleased as punch when some of that old, weird Google manages to shine through. That’s exactly why we’re as happy as we are to see the crew over at Google Japan so gleefully coming back year after year with a preposterous new keyboard design — and this year, they cooked up something just fantastically bizarr

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